WordPress 5 Cookbook

How to do it...

Take the following steps to build a recently registered user list and display it on the site using a shortcode:

1. Open the wpcookbookchapter5.php file of the WPCookbook Chapter 5 plugin in the code editor.
2. Add the following code block to define a shortcode and callback function for the recently registered user list:

add_shortcode('wpccp_recent_user_list', 'wpccp_chapter5_recent_user_list');function wpccp_chapter5_recent_user_list($atts,$content){  // Step 3 code should be placed in next line}

3. Add the following code block after the comment "// Step 3 code should be placed in next line", to query the database and generate the user list:

$user_query = new WP_User_Query( array( 'orderby' => 'registered', 'order' => 'ASC', 'number' ...